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Also, Berlin, Munich, Dresden, Rotterdam, among other cities were almost totally destroyed in WW2. Most of what you see now was rebuilt after 1945. Berlin looks very modern, not at all medieval even has elevated trains like Chicago. Same time we were building Levvitowns in the US, they were rebuilding dense walkable midrise neighborhoods in Germany. They could have also built sprawl burgs but didn't. Perhaps just by tradition. Germans are certainly big fans of driving and have lots of awesome cars. They built all the autobahns there, the same way we built interstate highways in the US.

I met an Austrian girl in Vienna, she said when the city tried to repave sidewalks with concrete the people protested, because it's not being done with traditional cobblestones, haha!